The offer was made to mark the public holiday in the country - which remembers when anti-government rebels were murdered

By KATHRYN CAIN

1st March 2017,9:45 pm

Updated: 2nd March 2017,9:01 am

PIZZA Hut has been slammed by disgusted customers in Taiwan after its marketing team asked people to “celebrate” the anniversary of a notorious massacre in the country by taking advantage of its “killer deals”.

The horror killings of February 28, also known as the “February 28 Massacre”, was the brutal murder of anti-government rebels in 1947.

Between 10,000 and 50,000 people are thought to have been killed by the nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-shek’s government, and the incident has left a lasting scar on the Taiwanese public psyche.

Worse, the day became known as the start of the White Terror, which saw thousands more people murdered or imprisoned. Families often never found out what had become of their loved ones.

Taiwanese workers were given Monday and Tuesday off to commemorate the tragedy which happened 70 years ago on Tuesday – but Pizza Hut tried to take advantage of the public holiday, calling its promotional prices “killer”.

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